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Best Restrictive Poems

Below are the all-time best Restrictive poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of restrictive poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Hidden Woman
I’m tired of trying to tame her
Of needing to blame her
Of trying to keep her colors
Locked within the lines
The sad confines
Of this life

She is there
Always...

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Categories: restrictive, how i feel, identity,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member A Cry For Leadership
Who is that brave and noble one I have heard so much about? I saw you standing right next to him in a newspaper report...

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Categories: restrictive, courage, leadership,
Form: Prose Poetry
Corner of My Time
I have no wish to partner with armor making my defenses sharper –
			It is spiritual truth I seek to garner.

I choose to never deliberately hush...

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Categories: restrictive, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
Mother Mother
Song:-  1990

Mother    Mother
   love me  love me 
   love me  love me
   I...

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Categories: restrictive, angst, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Did You Outgrow My Love
When did you outgrow my love?
When did the fabric of my tenderness
Become too tight
Too fitting?
When did the garment of my passion 
Become restrictive?
When did you...

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Categories: restrictive, love, moving on, pain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If I Were
I had a dream that I was the President of the USA and this
is what I would do to make my country strong again. ....

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Categories: restrictive, dream,
Form: List
Choose the Way
When you make your grand decision,
which will be your final path?
I advise you, O' my brother,
Always do the math.

Will you walk a road that's broken?
Might...

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Categories: restrictive, brother, life,
Form: Rhyme
Spontaneity
In a ballet of restrictive and 
stifling carriage, we strike into 
the depths of our imagination
and boundless intuition on a 

rollercoaster soaring free from 
rigid...

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Categories: restrictive, adventure, art, dance, deep,
Form: Free verse
When God Speaks
When God Speaks...

When God speaks... do you listen?
or, do you say
How can you speak when you don't exist?
I don't understand you...
so that must mean
that you...

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Categories: restrictive, freedom, god, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Graduate
The meaning of Life:
   To touch, to feel, to see;
   To know without shadows of doubt
   of One's immortality.

Life...

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Categories: restrictive, inspirational, introspection, life, kindergarten,
Form: Verse
In Defense of Structured Verse!
If Housman lived today and spoke of Terrance,
would rhyme and structure be his "stupid stuff?"
If he could wax poetic now,
what would it be that killed...

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© Wayne Sapp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restrictive, satire
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Red Sunsets On the Blue Hills
Red Sunsets On The Blue Hills

What of soft red sunsets on the blue hills
Or true love found in sweet dreams of the light
Just as night...

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Categories: restrictive, beautiful, imagery, red, sunset,
Form: Sonnet
The Pincushion
For decades you’ve used our bodies as your pincushion 
Poking, prodding, cutting, and killing. 
Forcing us to be your experimental subjects 
Scraping, shocking, drugging, and...

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Categories: restrictive, animal, drug,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Primal Questions
Do I want to only look at new ones,
never been used,
or is that a too restrictive market,
too competitively priced
for virginity of place and relationship on...

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Categories: restrictive, career, change, destiny, humor,
Form: Narrative
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler. 
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric. 
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts. 
refrains retaining remnant redolent...

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Categories: restrictive, allusion, analogy, confusion, crazy,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Shattered Sighs